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26 million Americans have chronic kidney disease.
Dec 4

10 Percent of Americans Have Kidney Disease—and Our Diets Are Making It Worse

Making some simple diet changes can go a long way to keeping your kidneys healthy.
By David B. Samadi
A doctor examines the x-rays of lungs.
Nov 20

Dizzy and Out of Breath? Get Checked for Pulmonary Hypertension

With pulmonary hypertension, the pressure in the lungs increases, while the blood vessels that supply the lungs constrict.
By David B. Samadi
Those keypads are teeming with microbes.
Jun 22

ATMs Dispense More Than Money: The Dirt and Dope That’s on Your Cash

What's on your cash? Studies show our money carries everything from pet DNA and old food to E.coli and traces of cocaine.
By Johanna Ohm and Andrew Read
The malaria parasite is spread through bites from infected mosquitoes.
Jan 31

Malaria Patients in UK Show Resistance to Treatment for First Time

By Michael Sainato
NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 05: Emergency workers converge at the scene of a collapsed crane in a roadway in lower Manhattan Friday morning on February 5, 2016 in New York City. The accident killed at least one person and seriously injured two according to the New York City Fire Department. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Feb 5

Afternoon Bulletin: Manhattan Crane Collapse, Officers Shot in the Bronx and More

By Felipe De La Hoz
NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 06: People walk in an area of the Bronx which is the center of the outbreak Legionnaires disease on August 6, 2015 in New York City. It is believed that cooling towers in the area contributed to the illness which is believed to be contracted by inhaling mists from contaminated bacteria in the water source. The Bronx, and specifically the area around the Opera Hotel on East 149th Street, is in the middle of the largest outbreak of Legionnaires disease in New York City's history. New York authorities announced that as of Wednesday night the illness has now sickened nearly 100 people since July 10, with at least eight people having died. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Aug 11

Legionnaires’ Disease: Why Is the Mayor AWOL Again?

By The Editors
Workers disinfect the waiting room of Beijing railway station in the fight against SARS, 25th May 2003. Beijing has seen a "notable downward" trend in the disease known as Severe Acute Respiritory Syndrome (SARS) cases over the past week, officials said, expressing confidence the capital can beat the outbreak but warn of a new challenge as people return to normal routines. AFP PHOTO/Peter PARKS (Photo credit should read PETER PARKS/AFP/GettyImages)
Jun 19

With Ramadan Here and the Haj Coming, Do We Need to Worry About MERS?

By Tevi Troy
LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 11: Comedienne Tig Notaro speaks onstage at Variety's 5th annual Power of Comedy presented by TBS benefiting the Noreen Fraser Foundation at The Belasco Theater on December 11, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for Variety)
Jun 1

Crowdfunding Campaign Takes on Little-Known Disease That Nearly Killed Tig Notaro

By Brady Dale
Dr. Jeffrey Gunzenhauser, Interim Health Officer from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, briefs the media outside the Department of Public Health in Los Angeles, California on February 4, 2015, with a general update of the measles outbreak in Los Angeles County. (Photo: Frederic J. Brown/Getty Images)
Feb 6

Why the Next Outbreak Could Be Polio

By Bethany Mandel
Mumps vaccines has not helped Fordham students from getting just that - mumps.
Feb 21

Fordham University Mumps Outbreak Claims at Least Thirteen Students

By Mimmi Montgomery and John Bonazzo
Dec 2

Gross Yourself Out With ‘Sickweather’ App for Hypochondriacs

By Molly Mulshine
The battles formerly fought in Zuccotti Park are now being fought on Twitter.
Nov 14

America Furious Over Occupy Wall Street's Free Flu Shot

By Drew Grant
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